Spiritual Self

Objectives
Student Outcome Facilitator Guide
• Understand the meaning of the • Facilitate student’s understanding on
following concepts: the various perspective of spiritual self
• Spirituality • Using in class activity
• Religion • guided questions to spur the interest of
the student
• Relate the concepts on their day to
• Facilitate self-reflection
day activities
• Provide opportunities to reflect

• Demonstrate the proper values and

• Guide students to appreciate their
attitude of spiritual self
spirituality in relation to their existence
Discussion Questions
• Who am I?
• What am I made of?
• Might refer to physical but it might also reveals his her attachment to the
spiritual world
• What is my greatest source of strength?
• How does this “strength” affects my decision?
• How does this “strength” keeps me moving?
• How do I live my life?
 Sample in-class activity 1 – Let’s share the light
Objective:
Assesses the past experience
that contributes to your spiritual Share a significant spiritual experience or
authenticity. transformative learning experience.

Instructions: (Think- Group-

Share)
How was that experience
Be in a group of three. Assign expressed?
number to all members such as
1, 2, and 3. Each number asks
different question. After sharing,
report to class. Third, how did that experience
affect your life?
Time Limit:
30 mins
Attempts of several scholars in separately conceptualizing
religion and spirituality have resulted into treating these two as independent constructs.

• Spirituality is a system that stresses the idea that a person does not need formal religion
to live a life of faith. 
It is personal and individual journey.

Spirituality is a broad concept with room for many

perspectives. In general, it includes a sense of
connection to something bigger than ourselves, and it
typically involves a search for meaning in life.

https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/what-spirituality
When Science Speaks
• Neurotheology.
• When praying it is the frontal
lobes that are activated.
• HADD
• tend to see a hidden agent
working behind the scenes,
making events unfold the way
they do, and perhaps even
deliberately hiding its own tracks.
• Andrew Newberg.
• Natural receptivity to entertain Neurotheology: This Is
Your Brain On Religion.
religious concepts Dec 15, 2015
• Bob Seidenstikcer. Word
of the Day: Hyperactivity
Agency Detection. Feb
11, 2012
Belief in invisible things
• to testimony:
• to reports of sightings, miraculous events supposedly caused by such
beings, and so on.
• subjective sense of presence:
• they ‘just know’ their dead Auntie is in the room with them, or that
they have a guardian angel, by means of some sort of extra sense: a
spirit sense.

Nigel Warburton.Belief in supernatural beings is totally natural – and false.Dec 15, 2015
Sample in class activity 2
• Objectives:
Analyze and organize the characteristics and
concepts of RWM logically thru Venn diagram
Religion Magic
• Instructions:
Be in a group of five. Then, Identify and write
the similarities and differences of the
following(RMW). . After sharing, present it to
class.

Witchcraft
Time Duration: 30 mins

Materials:
Manila Paper and Pentel Pen
 What Is Religion?

Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals

developed by man to create conformity and uniformity and
uniformity in the approach to God.
 Religion
Allport (1966) conceptualized religion into two
orientations,
namely extrinsic and intrinsic orientation.
• Extrinsic orientation use religion for
security and support.
• Intrinsic orientation view religion as an
ultimate truth.
Extrinsic or Intrinsic Orientation

Functions –
-Creates a moral community
-Provides rites of passage
-Provides emotional support
-Serves a means to
provide answers to ultimate
questions
-Agent of Social Change
 A supernatural order is the original and fundamental source of all that
exists. It is this supernatural order which defines the limits of what may
be known. Something that is supernatural is above, beyond,
or transcendent to the natural world — it is not a part of
or dependent upon nature or any natural laws. The supernatural is also
commonly conceived of as being better, higher, or purer than the
mundane, natural world around us.

Austin Cline. Religion is a Belief in Supernatural Beings. March 17, 2017

Ancient Greece

ZEUS – Lord of the Sky POSEIDON – Ruler of the Sea HADES – Lord of the underworld
Philippines
• Bathala – Tagalogs
• Laon – Bisayan
• Manama – Manuvu
• Kabuniyan – Regions of Cordillera
except Apayao
Rituals –are anything you do in
a repetitive nature.

Functions
-Unite people
- Alleviate fear of the crisis
-Prompt collective action
(Paranormal)
- avoidance or healing of illness in
humans
- seeking some “luck” where the
outcome is in doubt or beyond
factual influence.
Witchcraft-An explanation of events
based on the belief that certain
individuals possess an innate psychic
power capable of causing harm,
including sickness and death.

Functions :
Effective way for people to explain a
personal misfortune without having to
shoulder any blame to themselves.
Provides an outlet for feelings of
hostility and frustration without
disturbing the norms of the larger
group.
DUNGAN
Soul not normally seen by the human eye
a. Yes
b. no
A.
According to Magos. The soul of the Ilonngos is
not normally seen by the human eye
 Death is the separation of the
soul from the body.

a. Yes
b. No

A
the body cannot stay alive without the soul
For the Ibanags, When the body is in the state of shock
the soul leaves the body.
a. True
b. False

A
body is alive but it is without of essence and like a
rudderless boat has no direction
For the Ilonngos, The Dungan experiences wants and needs.

a. True
b. false
A
lolas telling their children to eat even just a little before going to bed
at night - it might go to the pot of rice in the kitchen.
The Dungan may leave the body voluntarily
a. True
b. False

A
– asleep and body is maltreated.
Folk believe that Dungan voluntarily departs when we
are sleep.
a. True
b. False

B
involuntarily (lured and gets frightened)
 Soul is heavy and in weight
a. True
b. False
B
ethereal – airy and windy as it travel with the air
 The Dungan inhabits the region
a. True
b. False
A
inhabits the surface of the earth together with other
dungans. It awaits the time when it can enter a body.
The Bukidnons believe the Dungan needs protection and
nurture.
a. True
b. False
A
weak at the baby’s birth – USUG(unintentional transfer of
disturbing vapors of a strong body to a weak one by holding
At Death, Dungan leaves the body via nose.
a. True
b. False

A
ears, eyes or orifices and eventually goes with the air
FINDING MEANING in LIFE
Perspective of Victor Frankl
 Sample in class Activity 3– Plant a Seed
GOaL: Realization . The
participants will be a fertile soil.
• Name of the plant
The topic and activity we have
today is the seed that will be • What does it look like?
implanted in your head and • Physical look
heart. Hopefully, it will grow and • Good qualities
flourish and help you find • Bad qualities
meaning in your life. • How long it will live?
Instructions: • How do you find meaning in the
Think and Share existence of you plant?
Time Duration:
30 minutes
• "...Meaning is something to discover rather than to
invent.“

• We can never fully understand ultimate meaning

because it is a matter of continued pursuit and
incremental understanding.

• It has the same concept with inner happiness, life

satisfaction, self-actualization, deep spirituality.
So how do we find meaning in our life?
Three broad approaches:

Experiential values
Creative values
Attitudinal values
 The ultimate goal:

SELF-TRANSCENDENCE
(Supra-meaning)
It is the ultimate meaning in life. It is
a reference to God and spiritual
meaning.
 Sample in class Activity 3– Plant a Seed
GOaL: Realization . The
participants will be a fertile soil.
• Name of the plant
The topic and activity we have
today is the seed that will be • What does it look like?
implanted in your head and • Physical look
heart. Hopefully, it will grow and • Good qualities
flourish and help you find • Bad qualities
meaning in your life. • How long it will live?
Instructions: • How do you find meaning in the
Think and Share existence of you plant?
Time Duration:
30 minutes
 Sample in class Activity 5 – Eulogy
Objective:
Provide students with empathy, sympathy, and a greater Make a eulogy for classmate
understanding, during any point of the novel, of the
characters and situations surrounding them.
answering the question:
Instructions:
Write a story about yourself but primarily it should
express the feelings and experiences of the yourself
giving the eulogy vis-à-vis the loved one. How did you live a
Materials: meaningful life?
Paper and Pen

Time Duration: One hour  

 References:
• Demetrio, Fernando & Zialcita (1991). The soul, 95 – 97. One is not enough.
99 – 101. The Soul Book. GCF Books.
• Haviland, et. al. (2007). Spirituality, Religion and the Supernatural. In the
Essence of Anthropology. Thomson Wadsworth. 289 – 306.
• Kawada, M. (1996) Bayad sa Dili Naton Kaipon: A Visayan Ritual of Offering to
the Spirits. In Ushijima & Zayas (eds.) Binisaya Nga Kinabuhi (Visayan Life).
Visayas Maritime Anthropological Studies. CSSP Publications. 213 – 240.
• Magos A. The Ideological Context of Ma-aram Practice in Mariit. In The
Enduring Ma-aram Tradition: An ethnography of Kinaray-a Village in Antique.
New Day Publishers. 46 – 62.
 References:
• Sosis, R. (2010). The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual. In Angeloni (ed)
Annual Editions: Anthropology 10/11. 33rd ed. McGraw Hill. 133 – 137.
• Stein & Stein (2011) Ritual. In the Anthropology of Religion, Magic and
Witchcraft. Prentice Hall. 77 – 102.
• Frankl, V. (1959). Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy.
Especially Part 2: Basic Concepts of Logotherapy. 149 – 210